which is better?

users
#1

Hello!

How should I know, which is better - OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice? There would be helpful if there can be created comparison table (functionality, formats support etc) into LibreOffice's web site.

It seems like extensions for LibreOffice are coming from OpenOffice.org's website.

There is also Go-OO project at http://www.go-oo.org/ - what about that? Is LibreOffice including all features of Go-OO?

It seems like OpenOffice.org is still developed and downloadable - http://download.openoffice.org/ - there is also v3.3 available.

Users are quite confused - three opportunities: LibreOffice, Go-OO and OpenOffice.org - which to choose...
Which will be included in Ubuntu? I heard, that LibreOffice.... I use myself Ubuntu already years...

Best Regards,
Edmund Laugasson

#2

I can assure you LibreOffice is better, it has more features and it is better in Ms Office compatibility.
But it still needs some bug fixes and still have some problems with Office compatilibity.
I think, if the development team works hard for some 6-12 months and takes bug reports seriously, it can be a real alternative for even hardcore Ms Office users.
Regards

#3

As you could read here
http://planet.go-oo.org/

"Go-oo has been made obsolete by the exciting new LibreOffice project. Read their planet here."

"here" means
http://planet.documentfoundation.org/

Enjoy,

Carlo

#4

Hi Edmund,

How should I know, which is better - OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice?
There would be helpful if there can be created comparison table

Well, that´s not very easy and will be changing a lot in the next
months. At the moment, I guess, it´s a true statement in general to
say, that LibreOffice has more features and more bugs as well. (My
very personal impression, though.)

But for me, much more interesting is the following:

OpenOffice.org is just open source, whereas LibreOffice is
independent and free (in sense of freedom).

The OpenOffice.org project today is the remainder of a huge
community after most of the independent community members supported
the idea, that a non-profit foundation should take care of the
evolution of their project, rather than Oracle. In fact, when you
look at the people and the spirit of the project, LibreOffice is the
true continuation of the former OpenOffice.org project. It´s just a
new name due to some legal issue.

:wink:

Stefan

#5

Hi Edmund :slight_smile:

"Better" is a very simplistic term. Similar projects usually have different
aims&objectives and therefore suit different circumstances better.

LibreOffice seems more responsive to bug-reports and seems to be developing
functionality faster. In the first week of LibreOffice we saw a LOT of
thoroughly tested bug-fixes were finally released which have still not been
released in OpenOffice. So, OpenOffice would say that it is better because it
is "more stable", meaning that known bugs&quirkiness stay around for longer.

LibreOffice is due to be the standard Office used in most new installs of linux
although OpenOffice is likely to remain in their repositories so people can
still change from Libre to KOffice (is that called Caliga or something now) or
Gnome Office (very very light-weight and limited functionality) or OpenOffice.
We have already seen a lot of Windows users and even some Mac users switch to
LibreOffice.

One problem with creating a table is that we have to keep adding new things to
the LibreOffice side while the OpenOffice side would remain fairly static. Our
opinion would probably be seen as biased although it might be a useful tool for
us to have.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Hi :slight_smile:

Easy. Go with LibreOffice (pun intended)

Go-oo has moved to LibreOffice
http://planet.go-oo.org/
& i think that already many of their updates that were delayed in OpenOffice
have already been included in LibreOffice bug-squad or even pushed into the RCs
:slight_smile:

Even if LibreOffice doesn't make it as the default Office Suite in April's
Ubuntu release it is in the repos and will most likely be in the October
release. We can't expect a vast behemoth such as Ubuntu to be fast and agile at
reacting to stuff like this.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Hello
I have one strange bug, which is in OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Some times,
when I paste text or doing longer work, and want to save document as ctr+s,
it close the main Window, but in manager this task is all the time.
What i shaould do with this?

System is Windows 7 64 bit, with 2GB RAM and AMD Athlon II x3 425

#8

Please! Please start a new thread with your own subject! This has nothing
to do with "which is better?"

#9

Hi Tom,

Hi Edmund :slight_smile:
...

[lots of TOFU]

you are answering to Edmund, not me, right?

Could you please learn to quote (http://learn.to/quote/), avoid
TOFU, and post your reply to the message you are answering to?

Readers will be thankful.

Stefan.

#10

Hi :slight_smile:

Thanks for the link. Yes, i think i was answering Edmund but i felt that your
comment was also directly relevant. It is a bit difficult to tell because you
have chopped off all the mails you are talking about.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#11

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the link. Yes, i think i was answering Edmund but i felt that your
comment was also directly relevant. It is a bit difficult to tell because you
have chopped off all the mails

Well that´s just what you are supposed to do. :wink: See paragraph "2.
Quoting and Answering" in
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html

:slight_smile:

Stefan

#12

I disagree - when you cut so much that the context is lost, that's too
much left out.

#13

Hi

Please could you try asking this in your own language? There might be people
here that understand your's better.

Is the main problem that the window closes? Do you know how much ram you have
and whether that is getting full from other programs at the same time as running
LibO?

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#14

Hi,

Thanks for the link. Yes, i think i was answering Edmund but i felt that your
comment was also directly relevant. It is a bit difficult to tell because you
have chopped off all the mails

Well that´s just what you are supposed to do. :wink: See paragraph "2.
Quoting and Answering" in
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html

I disagree - when you cut so much that the context is lost, that's too
much left out.

But you agree, that TOFU is disadvantageous?

Stefan

#15

:

Well that´s just what you are supposed to do. :wink: See paragraph "2.
Quoting and Answering" in
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html

I disagree - when you cut so much that the context is lost, that's too
much left out.

But you agree, that TOFU is disadvantageous?

1) Top posting is disadvantageous for too many reasons to go into, but
your reference page discusses them.

2) Calling it TOFU, which is an acronym I've never seen before and,
based on how tricky it was to find in Google, I suspect is not often
used, is worse. :slight_smile: (One might not think so, given our proclivity to
using TLAs and FLAs in place of perfectly valid words, but this one's
new to me.)

#16

Hi,

2) Calling it TOFU, which is an acronym I've never seen before and,
based on how tricky it was to find in Google, I suspect is not often
used, is worse. :slight_smile: (One might not think so, given our proclivity to
using TLAs and FLAs in place of perfectly valid words, but this one's
new to me.)

TOFU is a widely used acronym in german speaking areas.

TOFU means "Text oben, Fullquote unten"
translation: Text above full quote below

TUFO exists as well - Text below, full quote above.
But I think, that this arrangement is less common. :wink:

To make it even worse, the word Tofu exists in German - it means the cheese
(?) made of soy, that vegetarians use instead of meat.... (I just looked it
up in my preferred online dictionary, it means "bean curd").

Hope, I could help a bit. :wink:

Sigrid

#17

Hi,

2) Calling it TOFU, which is an acronym I've never seen before and,
based on how tricky it was to find in Google, I suspect is not often
used, is worse. :slight_smile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU

Don´t ask Google, better ask Wikipedia! :smiley:

Stefan

#18

Hi,

TOFU is a widely used acronym in german speaking areas.

TOFU means "Text oben, Fullquote unten"
translation: Text above full quote below

TOFU is an acronym for "Text Over, Fullquote Under" and it´s not
special for german speaking areas. At least that´s my experience
from the time when I was a graduate student in Delaware, USA. :wink:

Stefan

#19

In Google, the first result looks like this (without the html):

Tofu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tofu or bean curd is a food made by coagulating soy milk and then
pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. It is of Chinese
origin, and it is ...
Posting style - Stinky tofu - Agedashi tofu - Tofurky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu - Cached - Similar

Notice the "Posting style" in the second to last line? That's a link
to the Wikipedia page that contains the piece you linked to, above.

I didn't say it was hard to find, I said it was tricky. TOFU is not
intuitively rational as a term for "top posting."

Also, I find it mildly offensive, as I happen to like eating tofu form
time to time.... :slight_smile: